314, Lot: 125. Estimate $150. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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CRETE, Phaistos. Circa 330-320 BC. AR Stater (22mm, 11.54 g, 2h). Herakles standing facing, head right, holding club in right hand and bow in left; lion’s skin to left; to right, coiled serpent above tree of the Hesperides to left / Bull standing left within wreath. Svoronos,
Numismatique 17/24, pl. 23, 13/18 (for obv./rev. die). Fine, toned, porosity and scratches, reverse a bit off center and weakly struck.